Classical vs. Baroque

Classicaladjective

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

Classicaladjective

Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.

Classicaladjective

(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Classicaladjective

Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.

Classicaladjective

Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

Classicaladjective

Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined

Classicaladjective

(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.

Classicaladjective

of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance before modern times

Classicaladjective

of recognized authority or excellence;

Baroqueadjective

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Baroqueadjective

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Baroqueadjective

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

Baroqueadjective

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Baroqueadjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Baroqueadjective

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Baroqueadjective

Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.

Baroquenoun

elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Baroqueadjective

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;

Baroque

The Baroque (UK: , US: ; French: [baʁɔk]) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 1800s.